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It has triggered a host of conspiracy theories, but now Iran claims to have
solved the riddle of the assassination of a prominent nuclear physicist.

Tehran says that it has seized ten spies linked to Israel’s Mossad
intelligence agency, which it said was behind the
murder of Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, a university lecturer, in January last
year. One of the men, Majid Jamali Fash, was paraded on Iranian state
television on Monday making a “confession”.

He described being recruited by Mossad agents in Tehran and taken to Israel.
He claimed to have been taught to follow a target unnoticed, and to